Artesunate is an antimalarial medication and a derivative of artemisinin. To determine the number of asymmetric carbon atoms in artesunate, we can examine its chemical structure.
The structure of artesunate contains several carbon atoms, some of which may be chiral (asymmetric) centers. Chiral centers are carbon atoms bonded to four different substituents, resulting in non-superimposable mirror images.
Here is the structure of artesunate:
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